Part 6 - Self Made Wine Labels

Brewing home made wine is a real fun activity. And just as important as the making of wine is, labeling the product is as important. For one, it helps you classify the wine that you have made, so you can bring out that special wine on a special occasion. Secondly it can make the wine look authentic and very artistic and
mature. Showing everyone that you are a perfectionist and that you look at the finer details with a keen eye, wine-labeling will also help you in locating the wine.

Wine labeling can be fun and informative to the maker as well as the admirer. In order to make it as informative as possible, you should think of a list of simple details of the wine that you have just made. For example, a name for the wine, the date that it was made or manufactured, the history of the wine, a brief description of the process and the ingredients that went into the making of the wine and so on and so forth. The idea is to have the basic information of the wine on the bottle so that the admirer knows what he or she is drinking. It gives a more authentic touch to the whole thing.

Now, you can make the labels either by hand or by using cheap and home based technology like a computer. Making it by hand is not a bad idea, but remember the idea here is to turn on the authentic look and feel. So you can use a computer with a printer (preferably a color printer), a decent graphics application, a pair of scissors and some gum. You can start by making a logo for your own brand of wine and then you can place the text material that contains all the details that we talked about earlier, justified according to your visual taste. This can be repeated for all the bottles of wine that you are planning to make, so that you have a well-stocked collection that looks classy in every sense of the word.

Making sure that the final product passes the quality testing of your guests and friends visually, is half the challenge won. Your friends and guests can pick out whatever wine they want to taste and enjoy, without being worried of taking the wrong bottle of wine from the already visually stunning collection of wine bottles in the wine rack.

Drinking the right wine is like reading a well-written book. The experience starts with the cover or the label. It then moves on to the content so the onus is on you to make sure that your efforts should not stop in getting the taste right, but the bottling and in fact the whole package should deliver a rich experience.